NFL prefers the old white guy versus the black guy calling their games. Don’t want to tarnish the shield with a minority in the booth.

I’m confused about what the NFL is hoping to accomplish with this—what could they possibly gain? Michaels doesn’t want to call Thursday night games (regardless of what NBC wants), and Tirico is a MASSIVE improvement over him in every way.

This is like the Yankees not allowing A-Rod to hit but trotting out the corpse of Jeter for a whole fucking season in the 2-hole.

Yeah, Lochte and the swimmers are the victim dumbass. The difference between Brazil and America is we aren’t assbackwards dimwits who think the armed robbery committing felons are the good guys and the drunken moron who ripped a sign down goofing around is anything other than the drunken moron who ripped a sign down.

If you seriously think about the kind of recall you’d expect Ryan Lochte to have about absolutely anything; his initial version of the story isn’t really thaaaat far off. I’m actually kind of awed that he got as much of it correct as he did. #JEAH

He did loose money, but it was not robbery, it was basically extortion. I live in Venezuela and that is the standard MO for police. Police says you did something, you pay or you get in trouble... you don’t want to get in trouble in Venezuela...

Did a lot of driving in Mexico back in the day and the cops were always very helpful in collecting any traffic fines right then and there to save me the hassle. Very good customer service!

So, based on Bentz’s statement, there were lies and exaggerations on both sides. There were pointed guns by guys with badges and some minor property damage, and the guards did take the money in exchange for letting them go. Lochte should not have told the story to his mother — presumably he knows she might spread it —…

Wait, so some asshole 3rd world country security guards really did draw their weapons and demand cash as a requisite for letting them go? So Lochte only lied about some events which was really only embellishing and we are roasting someone other than those backwards Brazilian corrupt pieces of human shits? I thought we…

Your post is the definition of sour grapes.

Through 4 Olympics

That’s what is pretty funny to me. “The money was to repair the sign!”

Right!? Lochte and crew were dumb drunk douche bags who embodied the ugly American abroad stereotype... But when you start demanding compensation for minor damages at gun point, you’ve kind of lost the moral high ground. I’d be curious to see how the commentariat around here would react if a white Texan gas station…

So it sounds like neither Lochte or Bentz may be lying. They just have different interpretations of what actually transpired. You say Potato, and I say Portiéltüzerachmíshñ.

Uh. This sounds like a robbery to me. How isn't this a robbery?

Glad the Brazilian police eliminated any misconceptions of them as a corrupt institution by taking an $11,000 bribe and being done with this

If some ‘guards’ have guns drawn on you and demand money on the spot, that's sorta like getting robbed?

He made us side with Brady, now he’s making us admit that the Steelers were right. This guy is a monster

Normally I wouldn’t, but Conway’s 100% right here. We should have followed the Steelers’ lead.

The teeming masses of Patriot Haters that carried Goodell’s water while he railroaded Brady are suddenly aghast now that THEIR teams and players are being subjected to “integrity of the game” witch hunts.